Click here to order your copy of “the yellow book”! This book is a collection of 17 original “trad”-style Celtic tunes by Graham Lindsey. The tunes were written between October 2014 and June 2016. He loves writing in the third person about...

Recorded 15 May 2016 Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead I wrote this to pair with my other tune “From Away” and people have said it’s more straightforward and has a decent groove. I’ll let you decide! Written in the fall...

Recorded 1 Apr 2016 Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead So it’s tax season. I’ve finished tiling my front hall and bathroom, replaced a toilet and played all the music I possibly could. Yet I haven’t finished my taxes. A tune...

Recorded 15 Mar 2016 Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead Here’s a hornpipe written in the week leading up to St. Paddy’s Day – I named it after Don Kavanagh, Ottawa’s king of the hornpipe (always at the correct tempo, of...

Recorded 15 Nov 2015 with David Morrissey Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead I was in Calgary after the 2015 Canadian Folk Music Awards (held in Edmonton this year), and decided to take a trip to Canmore to see the mountains. Unfortunately it...

I wrote a tune for Stephen Harper! (No, it’s most definitely not a commission.) It’s a lively “jig”, in 5/8 with a couple of bars of 6/8, but usually not where you’ll hear it. Newfoundland players would call “Stephen Harper’s...

Recorded 21 Aug 2015 with Shane Cook Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead Written for a friend living on the East Coast – from away. Download From Away – key of F (PDF) | Download From Away – key of D...

Recorded 11 Feb 2015 with Ellen Gibling Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead This one proves that all you need to do to have a tune named for you is to compliment the guy who wrote it! It’s a nice little jig that people have seemed to latch...

Recorded 11 Feb 2015 with Ellen Gibling Written by Graham Lindsey Graham Lindsey – TradHead This is the first tune of mine that I’d played in public – now named for Grit Laskin, maker of fine stringed instruments, and without which I wouldn’t...

Trip To Pakistan, played here by The Sarah Burnell Band, was the single most cited YouTube video that I’ve been in – I’m not sure that qualifies it as having gone viral, but it’s popular! The tune “Trip to Pakistan” was written by Niall...